On this blog, I -- John Lofland, jlofland@dcn.org -- report on social life and organization in the Old North area of Davis, California sub specie aeternitatis.

Friday, April 18, 2014

Downtown Property Owners Present to City Council a Plan to Extend X Permit Regulations into Old North (239)

In the City Council Public Comment period last Tuesday,
April 15, several “Downtown Property Owners” presented a 17-point “Parking
Plan” centrally involving Old North.

Reproduced here, the first and seemingly keystone item is
to:

Add X permit parking in old North Davis immediately. (New signs are not
needed. A small “X” tag or sticker can be used. Current parking preferences for
residences could be maintained.)

If this proposal extends X permit parking into the
Old North following the form used in the western part of the Downtown, this
means that no one will be able to park outside an N-space more than 90 minutes most important times and that residents would even be confined to N-marked spaces for
longer periods. Student commuters who park in Old North would be out of luck
for more than 90 minutes most of the time.

While the plan says that “current parking preferences for
residents could be maintained,” it is hard to see how such “preferences”
outside N-spaces could be publically displayed and enforced. Indeed, the
proposal seems to create a logical and logistical nightmare.

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The chirpy cheerfulness (and earnestness) of the people presenting this
nightmare was quite engaging and I thought people might enjoy viewing it. It
provides, I think, another of those “only in Davis” moments we have come to
like so much and it can be seen here (running less than four minutes, happily):